ISSN:
1573-336X
Keywords:
Advanced Placement
;
calculus
;
Jaime Escalante
;
PSAT
;
Detroit
;
Garfield High School
;
logistic fitting functions
;
guidance
;
assessment
;
international education
;
achievement tests
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Education
,
Psychology
Notes:
Abstract We fit a functional relationship between aptitude and achievement test scores and show how to use it to allocate educational resources. As an example we use the PSAT–Mathematics test to predict performance on the College Board's Advanced Placement Test in calculus, as a guide to student and school participation, for school or system assessment, and to project future nationwide expansion. In addition to the PSAT-AP test score relations, we consider the distribution of student ability, school policies of student selection and recruitment, and teacher skill in presenting the material and in motivating students. This overall result provides an indication of just how remarkable was Jaime Escalante's accomplishment in Los Angeles's Garfield High School. We find little evidence for differences in educational quality between such diverse schools as in the inner city of Detroit and the affluent suburb of La Cañada, California. We comment briefly on the role of the AP in international assessments.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1009075432354
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